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Hour 2: The democrats are in heaven because inflation is now at 6%..former President Trump had the inflation rate down to 2%.

The Mark Simone Show

iHeartRadio and Mark Simone

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4.3695 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Former President Trump is in Iowa campaigning. He lost the Iowa Caucus to Texas Senator Ted Cruz in 2016. Streaming Host Lionel interview: Lionel and Mark talked about former President Trump’s low-life lawyer Michael Cohen testifying in front of the Grand Jury.

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0:00.0

Well, hey, spring just six days away.

0:03.4

We've got lots to get to this hour.

0:05.5

The new inflation number, 6%.

0:07.7

You know you're in a bad economy.

0:10.1

You know you've got a bad presidency when you're celebrating 6% inflation.

0:15.4

When you're popping champagne corks at 6%.

0:18.5

That's not good.

0:22.1

It was 1.6% when Donald Trump left.

0:25.6

The goal is to get it down to 2%. You'll need Donald Trump to do that.

0:31.9

Now, the stock market is up. That's more a case of just they feel that the bank situation is settled down for a while, that the banking crisis looks like it's calmed down. That's the main reason. It's not, nobody's going to be running out buying stocks on 6% inflation. The only reason it's come down. How many times it's come down? Like every month for a few months?

0:55.8

Yeah.

0:56.8

Very slightly.

0:57.7

That's only because Biden had it through the roof.

1:00.1

Now it's just ridiculously high.

1:02.4

6% inflation.

1:03.9

He's got that crazy new budget plan to spend another 5, 6 trillion.

1:09.2

That would almost double inflation.

1:12.4

The good news is no president ever gets his budget passed. It goes to Congress and gets chopped up, so it'll never happen.

1:19.1

Donald Trump, of course, all over the place talking about everything. Ron DeSantis, now,

1:25.0

he wasn't running a while back. He was playing with it. You know, you play with it because it brings you a lot of attention, brings you national attention, elevates your status if you look like a presidential candidate. Looks like now he's running. The difference is the Bush family has teamed up with him. They are not over this grudge with Donald Trump.

1:48.0

They are out to stop Donald Trump.

1:50.7

They have weaponized DeSantis.

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